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Hoogstraten
Sign in to saveHoogstraten () is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises Hoogstraten, Meer, Meerle, Meersel-Dreef, Minderhout and Wortel (Meersel-Dreef includes the northernmost point in Belgium).
Key facts
- Belgium municipality.name
- Hoogstraten
- Belgium municipality.type
- city
- Belgium municipality.picture
- Hoogstraten Sint-Katharinakerk aanzicht vanaf zuidwesten 2025-07-03.jpg
- Belgium municipality.picture legend
- St Catharina Church in Hoogstraten
- Belgium municipality.map
- Hoogstraten Antwerp Belgium Map.svg
- Belgium municipality.map legend
- Location of Hoogstraten in the province of Antwerp
- Belgium municipality.arms
- Coat_of_Arms_of_Hoogstraten.svg
- Belgium municipality.flag
- Flag of Hoogstraten.svg
- Belgium municipality.province
- Antwerp
- Belgium municipality.arrondissement
- Turnhout
- Belgium municipality.nis
- 13014
- Belgium municipality.mayor
- Marc Van Aperen (Hoogstraten Leeft)
- Belgium municipality.majority
- Hoogstraten Leeft, NVA
- Belgium municipality.postal codes
- 2320–2323, 2328
- Belgium municipality.telephone area
- 03, 014
- Belgium municipality.web
- www.hoogstraten.be
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Belgium
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Turnhout
- Official language
- Dutch
- Population
- 21424
- Area
- 105.39
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Merksplas
- Official website
- www.hoogstraten.be
- Image
- Gemeentehuis Hoogstraten.jpg
- Dialing code
- 03
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- Commons category
- Hoogstraten
- category for people born here
- Q18664702
- topic's main category
- Category:Hoogstraten
- postal code
- 2328
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Hoogstraten
- annual number of weddings
- 72
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-3-340-19-11
- contains settlement
- Minderhout
- P13200
- World War III
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Medieval period
- Early-modern period
- Contemporary period
- Postal history
- Sports
- Gallery
- Notable inhabitants
- Born in Hoogstraten
- Lived in Hoogstraten
- References
- External links
Hoogstraten () is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises Hoogstraten, Meer, Meerle, Meersel-Dreef, Minderhout and Wortel (Meersel-Dreef includes the northernmost point in Belgium).
Hoogstraten (originally Hoogstraeten) has a population of over 20,000, and lies in Flanders at the northern border of Belgium within an enclave surrounded on three sides by the Netherlands. Today, about 15% percent of the population consists of Dutch people. The town is named after the hoge straat or "high road" – a military highway that linked the old towns of Antwerp and 's-Hertogenbosch. In the town's early days, little trade existed. Villages and towns produced just enough for their own support, with little or no surplus to be 'sold' to other areas. Thus, most travelers along this high road were soldiers and armies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hoogstraten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (4)
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